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Emily, a senior sales executive, admits she enjoys the control she has over Mark, a struggling photographer.

I can't give up the position of empress," she says. "Everything is in my name. When I've gotten really bratty, I've said, 'Well fine, leave,' knowing he can't leave. I've never had such security in a relationship. There's no risk of flight. Ultimately, it's emasculating for him.

When Emily comes home, she doesn't always want to be the boss. But she says her husband no longer has the authority to take over.

"Ultimately, it gets down to pretty basic stuff. It's hard to be the power broker every day and then be the femme女性化 — feminine fatale. I'm not going to pay the billsI feel like his motherand then come home and suck his dick."

Anna says that after she and her spouse split and sold their apartment, her 8-year-old asked her why her new apartment was larger and more luxurious than her dad's. "I said, 'Because I pay the rent here,' " she recalls. "And she said, 'You do work harder than Daddy, don't you?' Kids are not stupid. I work way harder than Daddy."

Betsy isn't sure how being the child of a marriage where the mother is all-powerful will affect her college-age son. "I'm curious myself how it will play out," she says. "He says to me, 'I'm 70 percent my father, and the 30 percent that's you is working real hard.' "

More U.S. women crack glass ceiling

United Press International

December 22, 2003